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RIBBON HOLDER.

Patented Nov. 6, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

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RIBBON-HOLDER.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,070, dated November 6, 1883.

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l Beit known that I, IsAAo T. LANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Flatonia, in the county of Fayette and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ribbon-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clean-and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which forni a pat of this specification.

Figure I of the drawings isa vertical seet-iona-l view. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 is a detail view.

This invention has .relation to ribbonholders; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a base or supporter having bearings B, for the journals C of the ribbon-holding case D, which is made in two se1ni-cylin drical sect-ions, E and. E. One of these sec` tions, E, carries the journals, and the other section is hinged thereto at the back, so that the case may be opened to take out the empty spools and putin full ones. The sections when closed are fastened together in front by means of a small catch, F. Each section is provided with a middle partition, G, and bearings a are made in the end walls, II, and in said partitions, to receive the journal portions b of the removable spindles K, on which the spools L are placed. These spindles are arranged in series circularly, and are equidistant from the axial center of the case, and opposite each spindle is made in the cylindrical wall of the case a slot, N, through which the end of the ribbon on the spool is drawn, so that it will appear on the outside. The end of each spin dle projects from the end wall of the case, and inthe projecting portion rc is made an annular groove or neck, d, and beyond said groove the spindlehead o is provided with akey-seat, e,

to receive the eye of an operating-crank. That portion g of each spindle which enters the 5c spool is squared or ribbed, to engage a bearing of like form in the end of the spool, so that when the spindle is turned it will carry the spool around with it.

'Pivoted to the heads of the case-sections are 55 the arc-shaped latches Z, the outer edges, o, of which are convex, and are designed to engage the necks d of the spindles to hold them in place, while allowing entire freedom of rotation. Then the arc-latch is turned inward 6c all its spindles are disengaged, so that they can be. readily removed from the case. It is apparent that arcshaped latches may be arranged on the outer side of the spindle-heads; but in this case their engaging edges will be concave.

Y Having described this invention, what I claini, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A rotary ribbon-holder case made in sec- 7o tions having slots N and arc-latches Z, and the removable rotary spindles K, having squared portions y, to engage the spools, and projecting heads c, formed with necks d, to engage the arc-latches, and key-seats e, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presen-ce of two witnesses.

v ISAAC THEOPHILUS LANE. lvVitnesses:

E. A. AENIM, J. M. HAnnisoN. 

